Clinton: The Baltimore thing came on the heels of what happened in Ferguson, what happened in New York City and all these other places. And there is a big national movement about whether the lives of young African-American men count.

Jake Tapper: #BlackLivesMatter, yeah.

Clinton: Yeah. You can't have a bunch of people walking around with guns. I used to tell people when we did Bosnia, Kosovo, anything like that: You get enough people with weapons around, and there will be unintended consequences. People make mistakes. People do wrong. Things happen.

Clinton seems to be saying that the weapons used by the military in Bosnia and Kosovo during his term are the same select fire capability firearms used by the United States military which is simply silly—and wrong. Crime reports don't list homicides as the result of automatic weapons; they're by and large done by semi-automatic handguns. “Enough people with weapons around ...” means what, exactly? Law-abiding Americans? I attended the NRA convention this past April and there were tons of law-abiding gun carriers around me and guess what? No one was shot. The Florida Model works against him. So I assume Clinton is talking about non law-abiding people who are not legally authorized to carry or purchase a firearm. Yes, there are usually unintended consequences when criminals carry guns as statistically, they're the people who commit crimes using guns. This injection of gun control in the argument is nothing more than Dixiecrat fear-mongering, not unlike what the new gun control granddaddy has recently pushed.

June 17th, 2015

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Dana Loesch is the author of "Hands Off My Gun” (October 2014, Hachette) and hosts her award-winning, daily syndicated radio show, "The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative" on Radio America 1-4pm ET. She also hosts “DANA” on The Blaze TV, weekdays at 6pm ET.

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Loesch shines the light of truth on everything from feminism to gun violence to abortion. She reveals the damage done by elitists who flat-out don’t get the lives and values of people in the heart of the country. And she asks commonsense questions such as: How can you be angry at Walmart if you’ve never shopped in one? How can you hate the police if you’ve never needed help from a cop? How can you attack Christians if you don’t have a single friend who goes to church?
In other words, how can you run a country you’ve never been to? And how much could our politics improve if Coastals would actually listen to their fellow Americans? This book is a rallying cry for anyone who wants our leaders to understand and respect the culture that made America exceptional in the first place.

Dana Loesch hosts her award-winning, nationally syndicated daily radio show, The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative from Dallas, Texas where she also hosts “Dana” on The Blaze television network. Dana appears regularly on Fox News, ABC, CNN, among others, and has guest co-hosted “The View.” She describes herself as a “conservatarian.”